Nagpur : Two women Maoists were killed after a fierce gun-battle in the forests of Gadchiroli district here on Monday, an official said. According to an official spokesperson, the gun-fight took place when a security team of the CRPF and Anti-Naxal Operations (ANO) was conducting combing operations in the Maoist-infested Nihaikal jungles of the district. […]
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Tigress Avni shot from behind, says expert’s report
Nagpur : Tigress Avni was shot and killed “when she was facing away” from the gunman hired by the Maharashtra government, the report of an independent government-appointed expert revealed here on Monday, giving a new dimension to the operation. The detailed analytical report has been prepared by wildlife biologist Milind Pariwakam of the Wildlife Conservation […]
Man-eater tigress Avni shot dead in Vidarbha forests in Maharashtra
Nagpur : Avni, a five-year old alleged man-eater tigress who had created terror in Maharshtra’s Vidarbha forests, was shot dead on Saturday in Yavatmal district. The search operation came after nearly three months of a massive tigress-hunt along with trap cameras, drones, a pack of trained sniffer dogs and a hang-glider along with a team […]
Mohan Bhagwat pitches for legally constructing Ram temple
Nagpur : Highlighting the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya as a matter of national interest, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday pitched for building it at the earliest through “appropriate and requisite law” and slammed certain “fundamentalist forces” for obstructing the process. Addressing the cadres of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh here during the annual […]
‘Called’ by spirit, Maharashtra teen commits suicide
Nagpur (Maharashtra) : An 18-year-old student ended his life claiming he was ‘summoned’ by the spirit of a boy whose accidental death he had witnessed a few weeks ago, police said here on Tuesday. Saurabh Nagpurkar, a student of the P.B. College of Engineering, hanged himself at his home in Kasabpura, late on Sunday night, […]
UP Police gets 3-day transit remand of ‘spy’ scientist
Nagpur (Maharashtra) : A Nagpur court on Tuesday granted to Uttar Pradesh Police the three-day transit remand of scientist Nishant Agrawal, arrested a day earlier on charge of spying for Pakistan intelligence agency ISI and other countries, officials said. The Uttar Pradesh Police will soon take him to Lucknow for obtaining his proper remand and […]
Uttar Pradesh police get transit remand of arrested BrahMos engineer
Nagpur : The Uttar Pradesh anti-terror squad was on Tuesday granted a three-day transit remand of Nishant Agrawal, a senior systems engineer working with BrahMos Aerospace. Agrawal was arrested in a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh ATS and Military Intelligence on Monday on espionage charges. He was produced before the Nagpur Sessions Court early […]
BrahMos scientist held on spying charge, 2 others raided in UP
Nagpur/Lucknow : In a shocking development, a young scientist working with the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd (BAPL)’s missile research centre in Nagpur was arrested on Monday on alleged charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and other countries, informed sources said. Scientist Nishant Pradeep Agrawal has been working for the last four years in […]
Big breach at BrahMos Missile Research Centre : Spy working for Pakistan’s ISI arrested
Nagpur : In a shocking development, a young scientist working with the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd (BAPL)’s missile research centre here, was arrested on Monday on alleged charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and other countries, informed sources said. Scientist Nishant Agrawal has been working for the last four years in the BAPL, an […]
Mafia don Arun Gawli tops in Gandhi exam
Nagpur (Maharashtra) : Mafia don Arun Gawli, currently incarcerated for life in Nagpur Central Jail, has not only passed but topped the 2017 Gandhi awareness exam, surprising many, an organizer said on Monday. “Gawli scored 74 correct answers out of the 80 in the question paper in the open-book exams. We are happy that he […]